Harold J. Laski: “The press was to be free; and there is at least a degree of generous insight in his plea for a wider commercial freedom…”

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.